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Expressive Cat Drawings Capture Feline Personalities Through Gestural Lines The way this artist turns scribbles into incredibly expressive cat drawings is absolutely amazing!

Artist ShouXin brilliantly captures the range of personalities of cats with his energetic pencil drawings. trib.al/R9wjsog

Aww, thanks.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

This is surprisingly hard

It’s regulatory threat modeling, so you can probably see why it needs a kinda weird skillset and mindset.

Look dawg I heard you liked ferries so I put a ferry in your ferry…

In general, yes, but not in this case. A foreign investor bought an American company, and there are cybersecurity and related stipulations on the deal.

I don’t like compliance that makes people jump through stupid hoops, but the ones they negotiated for themselves are fine even if stupid.

As an IC I was so badly overworked that it still feels like half time.

(Also what I am doing is CFIUS compliance, which my brain seems uniquely suited for, and I’m subcontracting so the hard client management stuff is not my problem. So it’s not even as hard as my IC job.)

Not just that people focus on this, but they focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else! Like the amount of f'ing language analysis from the left & academia *dwarfs* the amount of, say, *power* analysis. Y'know ... power? Anyone? Power?

President Donald Trump waving outside while wearing a red MAGA hat

Environmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep Using: tinyurl.com/yc6m5fzk

“I’ve actually been enjoying walking and using public transit more instead, all thanks to legendary environmental activist Donald J. Trump.”

Also I like talking about this way too much, but it is my new thing and I am making enough to pay my bills on 20 billable hrs/week, give or take.

Galley service

I’ve already talked to people with s corps that aren’t paying themselves a salary. And others who had s corps for years who didn’t and are now in penalty hell.

The worst thing I’ve done so far is pay for something with the wrong credit card.

Yeah. I find it personally offensive that US taxes are so hard, but they are. TurboTax delenda est.

Oh yes, I have one! My theory is that I will get all this set up properly while I am small and the irs doesn’t care, and save maybe a few thousand this year. But when I’m able to work more and charge more, I’ll already have everything in place for aaaalll the write offs, done correctly.

Solo S corp stuff is weird. I can’t deduct my healthcare premiums directly now? The right thing to do is have my business say they’re a benefit and reimburse them in full through payroll.

I have also written an accountable plan for reimbursing other expenses. It mostly says “must have receipts!”

That sounds awesome.

I like how Microslop just sent an email to my work account telling me to do my job — compliance analysis for a highly regulated industry — with Copilot.

Yeah that’s how you get fines in the millions mf.

Oh my god.

Like, I know it’s happening. But every time I hear it I’m like AAAAAAAAAARGH.

The thing where vet visits have somehow (PE, I think) become v expensive doesn’t help. I didn’t realize pet insurance was the new normal when I got the boys, and that was an expensive mistake.

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

While this is a problem for the self-employed (my boss is a jackass, often), picking clients is similar.

I know what I’m worth on the open market. That isn’t what I am charging (though I’m sure the ultimate client, who is All Toxic All the Time, is paying that).

I take it back the only really great job advice I got from my parents was that a good boss is worth a slightly lower wage. If you have a choice between making $22 an hour under a good boss and $25 an hour under a jackass, and it won’t put you in the poorhouse, go with the good boss.

…this clothing organizing spree means I am going to start caring what I wear again.

Not that I don’t, but I put a small subset in a separate dresser and wore that. Sometimes I changed the subset. I didn’t accessorize.

It will be interesting to see what I do now that I can find it all.

Andy's podcast is essential. It only has three episodes so far, but I've learned so much from each of them.

A book with a dust cover that reads Simon and Shuster's guide to Pokeman. The subtitle reads an easy-to-use- field guide to 350 species with more than 1000 spectacular full-color illustrations and information on 'poke' anatomy and behavior, species' primary activity, habitat, ecological significance, and much, much more. This dust cover is clearly a modification of a different guide, the word poke is clearly inserted over something else as is pokemon. A particularly well-informed reader would recognize this as Simon and shuster's guide to insects copyright 1981 when I was a child and completely obsessed with insects.

If only I spoke Japanese...

Yep. I honestly thought ACA had fixed that. I’m dumb.

And the system is cycling tons of money through layer upon layer of middlemen to fuck with this.

I just learned about fully insured vs level funded vs self insured and I would like to stab everyone.

I have a chronic condition known for bankrupting people and TIL I can bankrupt my employer too.

The more I learn about how health insurance works in the US, the more I think we should be nuked from orbit. Just vile.